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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 3:1
The Epistles to the Seven Churches Continued
SUMMARY OF REVELATION 3: Letter to the Church at Sardis, the
Spiritually Dead Church. Letter to the Tried and Faithful Church of
Philadelphia. Letter to the Lukewarm Church of Laodicea.
THE CHURCH AT SARDIS
The church in Sardis. The city of Sardis, once the capital of the
great kingdom of Lydia and the home of Croesus, the rich king, lay in
the interior nearly a hundred miles east of Smyrna and Ephesus. Though
it had lost its former greatness it was still a considerable city in
the first century. The church there was planted, no doubt, by some of
the companions of Paul. The former city has now ceased to exist, and
only extensive ruins remain to testify of its greatness. Like the
church at Ephesus, which had lost its first love, the Sardian church
which had "a name to live and was dead", has had its lampstand removed
for many centuries.
He that hath the seven Spirits of God. See notes on Revelation 1:4.
The perfect number seven denotes fulness. He hath the fulness of the
Spirit whom he sends into the earth to do his work.
Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Though nominally
Christian and living the Christian life, they were really spiritually
dead.
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